Times-Post Promises Strong Fort Wayne Publication
The Times-Post under new ownership pledges to continue publishing at rank with Indiana’s best papers. The plant is first class and read by Fort Wayne’s leading citizens. It offers strong advertising value and will print the latest news with impartiality. The shop also handles all job printing work and seeks local patronage. Timus-Post, C J Drummond, Manager.
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Timms-Post
Indiana
Times- Post
Fort Wayne
Trugs-post
Labor's Holiday Observance and Outlook Recalled
The piece notes Labor Day as a significant, legally recognized holiday in the United States. It highlights union progress, worker self improvement, and the hope for better times after industrial downturns, while touching on finances, Fort Wayne’s centennial, and proposed canal plans.
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United States
Fort Wayne
Lake Erie
Lake Michigan
Public awakening urged for marked undertaking plan
Officials behind a large project appeal for public support to ensure success. Committees manage the plan but confront public apathy and call for heightened interest in the initiative and its broad implications.
Wages the World Over Across Many Nations
A survey of global wages shows wide disparities from 75 cents a day for a Mexican minion to salaries in Europe and Asia. Reports list daily, weekly, and monthly earnings for printers, laborers, teachers, and trades across countries including Peru, India, Morocco, Belgium, Brazil, Ceylon, Jerusalem, Turkey, Saxony, France, Hamburg, Germany, Asia Minor, Persia, Mexico, and Bavaria.
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Hamburg
Saxony
France
Germany
Asia Minor
Persia
Mexico
London
Bavaria
Quotations on virtue and education from classic authors
A compact collection of age old maxims on politeness, time, books, teaching, fools, courage, death, nature, thought, pride, behavior, education, reading, and love. Notable names include Bacon Franklin Browning Pope Cervantes Socrates Locke Erasmus Walton.
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Wis
Browning
Pope
Boileau
George Sewell
Coleridge
Bovee
A. Warwick
Cervantes
Beranger
Quarles
Johnson
Socrates
Locke
Erasmus
Izaak Walton
Favorite Songs And Their American Roots
A brief catalog of classic songs with origins and notes. Maryland My Maryland by James Ryder Randall written in April 1861 in New Orleans. Old Folks at Home by Stephen Foster, Suwanee River, sold 400000 copies in five years. Ben Bolt by Thomas Dunn English debuted 1848 in Pittsburgh. Auld Lang Syne with Burns and Ramsay versions. Massa's in the Cold Cold Ground cited by Foster. mass of miscellaneous origins and printing jokes from Trans-Port job office.
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Maryland
James Ryder Randall
Baltimore
New Orleans
Mozart
Ben Bolt
Thomas Dunn English
Pittsburg
Buena Vista
Suwanee River
America
HE. P. Christy
Christy Minstrels
Burns
Ramsay
Massa
Stephen Foster
Covington, Ky
Bits of Information From Around the World
The note collage reports women in Aix-la-Chapelle becoming postal letter carriers with a distinct uniform. It cites research on mastication and blood flow, world population figures, new asphalt paving methods in France, the Siberian railway expansion, Goethe archives find, and updates from the Interstate Commerce Commission on freight car grab irons and draw bars. It adds Bucharest as a crime hub, New England divorce rates, Maine prohibition impact, Paris moral conditions, and cheap tenement housing laws in republican times.
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Aix-la-Chapelle
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
America
Total
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bucharest
Balkan States
Vienna
Berlin
Paris
London
Rome
New York
Massachusetts
New England
New Hampshire
Maine
The World's Holidays and Movable Feasts
The article reviews movable Christian holidays tied to Easter and lists various observances. It notes Whitsunday relations, historic Roman and Greek festivals, and regional statutory holidays such as Lee’s birthday in southern states, Arbor Day across several states, and Labor Day observed in a wide set of states.
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Octavius
Anthony
Actium
Theodos
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
Georgia
North Carolina
Kansas
Rhode Island
Wyoming
Nebraska
California
Colorado
Utah
Idaho
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Montana
New Stampshire
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Washington
Advertising Fueled Rapid Growth Across New York Trades
The passage asserts that advertising spurred rapid expansion in nearly all New York trade departments. Merchants once local and obscure gained national and global recognition, and small shops transformed into large bazaars through persistent promotion.
Molasses Saves the House From White Ants Insects
A 19th century remedy notes molasses deters white ants that tunnel under homes. When ants invade, the owner pours treacle or molasses on the ground around the path between nest and house. The scent attracts black ants which then attack, aiding defense of the timber.
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Ofios
Meuitu
Pre
Ant army rescues house from white ants attack
A vivid account describes white ants swarmed by mercurial black ants in treacle. The黑 ants retreat and return in force, marching under the infested house to wipe out white ants. Afterward the army exits with captured white ants, saving the house.
German Annals Through 1852 Chronicle of German States
The timeline recounts Prussia’s losses after Jena and Auerstadt, the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and the rise of the Confederation of the Rhine. It notes Napoleon’s occupations, annexations in 1810, the 1815 Vienna settlement, the Germanic Confederation with key members, Frankfurt Diets, Prussia education reforms, and the 1845 Frankfort Diet. The sequence covers revolutions, Hungarian independence, and the 1852 abolition of jury trials.
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Prussia
Jena
Auerstadt
German Empire
Rhine
Vienna
Napoleon
Germany
France
Austria
Bavaria
Saxony
Hanover
Wurtemberg
Denmark
Tmaly
Frankfort
Society For
Duke of
Trunswick
Italy
Hungary
Lst
Temesvar
Ehshaps
Kossuth
Andrassy
Turkey
Munich
Austrian Empire
Uncle Sam's Auction House Offers Odd Postage Parcels
A dead letter office room gathers an odd mix of items from skulls to candy due to underpaid or misaddressed mail. Sales occur annually after two years of tries to locate owners, with parcels valued around 6 cents each, sold as mixed lots before December holidays. Proceeds go to the United States Treasury.
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Tov
United State Treasury
Remembering a Great Fight in the Franco German War
The 1870 71 Franco German war is recalled with swift French collapse and German occupyments. Sedan's capitulation follows Napoleon s surrender with vast casualties at Mars la Tour Gravelotte and other battles. The narrative notes Prussian Guard losses and French defeats alongside dramatic scenes and canvas depictions.
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Natale
Abace
Lorraine
Sedan
Napoleon
Strasburg
Mig
Aris
Mars-la-four
Gravelotte
Skeletons Found on River Sand Bar Near Memphis Town
A fisherman on President's Island reports six human skeletons on a sand bar opposite Jacksonmoun Park, about two miles south of Memphis Town. River men suspect they are the crew and passengers of the steamer Dust, lost years ago. Skeletons lay six feet apart in the sand.
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President’ Island
Memphis
Jacksonmoun, Park
Milan Mourns Carlo Valerie The Horseman Millionaire
Milan mourns Carlo Valerie a renowned millionaire manufacturer and famed horseman who rarely drove fewer than six horses at once. He often commanded ten in a team and boasted perfect safety, claiming to understand animal language. His death followed imprudence after a long gallop and iced water.
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Milan
Carlo Valerie
Europe
Valerio
Oldest Book Claims Ancient Origins
The text asserts the oldest book is The big Veda, existing complete 1,500 years before Christ, by contrast with Egypt’s Book of the Dead, which it says is a collection of fragments dating back possibly to 6,000 B C.
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Egypt
Old Elk Garden Residents Reach Remarkable Ages
Daele Bill Hess of Elk Garden Virginia is 109 as of June 26, with 175 grandchildren and 90 great grandchildren. Fellow elderly residents include 103 year old Mrs. Sarah Shelton and 101 year old Mrs. Dorton, underscoring a townwide longevity.
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Elk Garden
Daele Bill Hess
Sarah Shelton
Dorton
Grains of Gold on Virtue and Self Sacrifice
A reflective piece extols self sacrifice as holy, praises virtue in a fair body, and warns against purchasing love with gifts. It argues true gentleness lies in modesty and seeking others' opinions, condemning vainglory while noting wisdom mingles with faults. It ends with a Latin question about learning without use.
Gold in Colorado Sends Camp to Premier Prominence
Gold fields near Cripple Creek Colorado attract investors miners and engineers. Mines like Independence Patent Victor and Portland yield vast ore profits with Independence once producing $80 000 per ton. Cripple Creek population hits 12000 with banks newspapers hotels and gambling rooms fueling a bonanza era.
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Cripple Creek
el Paso County
Colo
Europe
Eldorado
Independence
Patent
Victor
Victor, ©. O. D., Anaconda, Moose, Ida May, Gold and Globe, Ben Hur
Anchoria
Summit
Gold Hill
Globe Hill
Lawrence
W. S. Straton
Portland
Burglars Take State Prison Horses in Wethersfield Heist
Ex convicts burglarized the Connecticut State prison at Wethersfield stealing a black horse team worth 800 dollars, a 200 dollar surrey wagon, 200 dollars in silver harness with the state crest, two whips, two blankets, two sheepskin mats, and a ham. They broke an iron gateway, cut a wire fence, and drove through the garden to freedom, pursued to New Flaven thirty six miles away.
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Connecticut
Wethersfield
New Flaven
French Events Chronicle Through Napoleonic Era
A condensed timeline notes major European events from 1689 to 1800 including wars and triumphs. It covers William II era, the War of the Spanish Succession, Blenheim, Marlborough, Louis XIV and XV, the Mississippi scheme, Seven Years War beginnings, Canada conquest, Jesuit expulsions, Louis XVI accession, crop distress, abolition of torture for witnesses, the diamond necklace affair, opening of the Estates General, monarchy to republic shift, Bourbons, King’s flight, coalition wars, King beheading, revolutionary tribunal changes, Bonaparte campaigns, Egypt and Syria expedition, and a sensational claim about the Miracle of the Red Sea.
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William II
England
Blenheim
Marlborough
Prince Eugene
Luis XIV
Louis XV
France
Prussia
Canada
Louis XVI
Valmy
Terrir
Cale
Dar
Iutonary Tribunal
Bonaparts
Bonaparte
Italy
Montenotti
Mandovi
Ldi
Acola
Egypt
Syria
Central Bimetallic Compact Calls for Silver Restoration
The document argues for restoring silver coinage to pre 1873 levels, criticizing the 1873 act that ended free coinage. It claims silver's bullion value fell to half its face value and asserts moneylenders manipulated the system, urging formation of a Central Bimetallic Compact to educate and campaign for legal restoration, with Times-Post empowered to convene a meeting.
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Wuerreas
Wuereas
Times—Post
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